Portable Netbeans

I got a new USB stick today and decided to make a good IDE-on-the-go out of it. I installed XAMPP, my favorite text editor, FTP manager and than I came across my favorite IDE for python development – Netbeans… After about 3 hours of fighting with it I did actually make it portable :)

So what you need to do to make Netbeans portable:

  1. First, copy already installed Netbeans to your USB stick. ( I recommend choosing a zipped version from here then simply unpack it)
  2. Now there are 2 possible ways: editing a configuration file and applying commands to a shortcut. I’ll describe both:
    • 1st: find file netbeans.conf in directory etc\ inside a directory with Netbeans.  Now line

      netbeans_default_userdir="${HOME}/.netbeans/6.5"

      replace with

      netbeans_default_userdir=".\YOUR_USER_FOLDER"

      where YOUR_USER_FOLDER is a folder with different configs. It must not be in the same directory that your Netbeans is (it was my mistake).

      Now find line with something like

      netbeans_jdkhome="/path/to/jdk"

      it defines path  to a place where JDK is installed in your stick. Replace it with something like

      netbeans_jdkhome=".\JDK\"

      don’t forget to replace JDK with a valid for you path

    • 2nd: if you are using PStart or something similar to that make a shortcut for netbeans.exe and add commands:

       --jdkhome "%pdrive%\PATH_TO_JDK" --userdir "%pdrive%\PATH_TOU_USERDIR"

      where PATH_TO_JDK is a directory with JDK on your flash USB and PATH_TOU_USERDIR is your user directory. Again it must not be in the same directory that your Netbeans is.

And that’s it! Happy coding :)

Published by Hollgam, on January 11th, 2009 at 11:41 pm. Filled under: Programming Tags:, | 9 Comments

9 Responses to “Portable Netbeans”

  1. Hi,

    Interesting tip. This adds value to the documentation available in community for using NetBeans. Have you seen the wiki article at http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqPortableWorkingEnvironments, if not please do that also. You shall also add your tip in NetBeans community docs.

    with regards
    Tushar Joshi, Nagpur
    http://netbeanside61.blogspot.com

    Comment by Tushar Joshi on February 2, 2009 at 1:35 pm



  2. Thanks for your advise! I’ll check that wiki and add all info that I can as soon as I get some free time.

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